Jennifer Lopez hit with lawsuit over dog-bite incident

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Those of us who work on L.A. Unleashed have just been waiting for the opportunity to type the words ‘Jennifer Lopez.’ The (New York) Daily News has provided us with the ultimate in fulfillment:

A flight attendant claims Lopez’s guard dog chomped her leg on a plane trip almost two years ago, and now she wants to take a $5-million bite out of the singer’s pocketbook.

Lisa Wilson, 40, filed a suit in Brooklyn Federal Court, alleging the attack caused her to fall and suffer back injuries that prevent her from working anymore.

The dog-bites-woman tale began July, 3, 2006, when NetJets, a private airline company, assigned Wilson to work a flight taking J.Lo to Burbank Airport, the suit says.

Wilson says Lopez boarded a Gulfstream IV jet at Republic Airport on Long Island, N.Y., with Floyd, a German shepherd described in the manifest as ‘a well-behaved guard dog.’ Just in case, Wilson, of Mary Esther, Fla., says in the court papers, Lopez gave her some instructions on how to act around Floyd.

But the suit alleges that 90 minutes into the flight, Wilson walked past Floyd, and he responded by ‘attacking her and biting her pant leg.’ In an attempt to get away, Wilson says she ‘twisted and fell,’ injuring her lower back so badly that she had to undergo surgery last year and can no longer work --’at great economic loss.’